Panama president calls Trump’s talk of ‘reclaiming’ the Panama Canal a lie

PANAMA CITY (AP) — Panama President José Raàºl Mulino on Wednesday accused U.S. President Donald Trump of lying when he said in his address to Congress that his administration was "reclaiming" the Panama Canal. Trump was referencing a deal announced Tuesday for a consortium led by the U.S. investment management company BlackRock Inc. to buy a controlling stake in the company held by a Chinese group that operates ports at both ends of the Panama Canal. Panama maintains that it has full control over the canal and that the Hong Kong-based group’s operation of the ports did not amount to…